Many of us here have incountered spirit in many different forms. How do you feel when around spirit?

I feel deeply cold, a cold that comes from the inside outwards i really dont like that. But once i have seen or senseed where the spirit is i calm down and im generally ok. As long as its behaving, lately they seem to be a bit angry..

Generally the same - that inner cold that seems to seep from the inside out. It's not so bad on a hot summer's day but during winter it really doesn't help

It varies-sometimes it's a cold shiver (oddly only down one side of my body), sometimes a tingly sensation round my head.

I knew one that came across like a grey brooding cloud- endlessly pacing and talking my head off with his tedious rants of Rosicrucian philosophy. Just not my cup of tea.

I get a tight knot of tingleing like rally bad pins and needles at the base of my neck just above my shoulders. It then runs down my spine and up my neck to the base of my skull, the closer that I get to this presensce or it gets to me.

Siksika

Similar to Flaxen for me, generally a cold feeling only down the left side of my body and a kind of electric tingle around the head. I say electric, its the easiest way to describe it, like a small electric current going through me.

Siksika

pretty much the same as me but mine concentrates in my arms and hands. Funnily enough I went to a flea market thew other day and picked up a spirit there, I believe it came from the old dolls, it took about 3 hours to finally get rid of.
I did a seminar in a funeral directors a couple of years ago and just had this feeling of spirits swirling around in the chapel of rest, it was the oddest thing I've ever experienced.

What i find weird is. When i feel that coldness, most of the time i feel as if im being pushed down, as if im walking through water. But others it really relax's me, my grandad comes sometimes and i know its him because i feel relaxed.

I must admit i feel warm, Almost like someones walking over my grave but in a nice way. But then i am weird.

I get similar only it runs down my arms and then I get like goosebumps over and over again all about my body.

Ooh this is hard to explain, because it's different depending on what it is I am sensing.

Sometimes its a simple sense of not being alone. That's usually for the friendly or familiar spirits. Sometimes my body reacts before my 'sixth sense' does, if that makes any sense. For example, if I am reading with my head bowed when I detect a presence, my head will snap up and I am instantly on alert - and then the cold foreboding comes. if a spirit is a particularly nasty one I get a sense of danger and sometimes nausea.

Sometimes I smell flowers, or other fragrances, and sometimes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and I get a rippling sensation across my skull. Sometimes it feels like pressure on my shoulders, but that's when the familar ones are 'pressing' me about something - a bit like poking me in the ribs to remind me.

My guide lets me know he is around 'in public' by giving me the sensation of someone running their finger up and down my spine. And I also get the surges of goosebumps that Comfrey has described.

Now my guides feel very different when they are around me.

One who I work with most of the time now, knows me a little to well ( I knew him very well in life) and has a wicked sense of humour. In public he tends to let me know he's about by useing a specific pressuer point behind my ear, it's just like someone breathing on it and the breath is warm. Other times, I can actually see him which makes it very hard to keep a straight face and hold a conversation with someone, when he's fooling about in the back ground. For all of this though he is a very intense and gifted character. Some one did a reading a short while ago for me and he truned up. This is a very experienced and good Tarot reader and he made her sit up and think twice. It's an experiecne she'll not forget in a hurry.

Anather guide has a habit of either sitting beside me or in the beging stepping into me and my space, he got asked to leave pretty quick. He's actually my OH's guide and a distant reletive of my OH. He to was an amazeing character, It just happens that he can comunicate better through me to my OH. He's very heavy energy wise to work with and if he go's to near to my OH , he actually stops my OH being able to move. Hence he comunicates through me.

There are a couple more guides that we work with and these all have ther own charecters, sensaions and feelings.

My first guide always smells of Sandlewood, Sweet Grass and Ceder, but these were things he used during his life time.

A friend of mine had several presences in and old house that she lived in, she couldn't really work with them or feel where they were until we asked them to have an individual smell. Some were very pleasent others not so much. One on the stairs smelt of lynx aftershave, yet there was no man living in that area of the house. Anather smelt of Tweed purfume, so much so that it gaged in the back of your throat. Again no one there wore that. One other smelt of rank BO, now that one was bad. Phew!

But the most memerable one was a guide who came in to help her through a few major problems and changes in life. He was a real charater and took a real shine to her, he lived in his lifetime around the 12/ 13th century's. Now that one really did smell bad. That one turned up in a packed restaurant once and hung around for the whole meal, now the only problem there was everyone else could also smell him. He did tone things down over time, but that was one bad smell. You always knew when he was about.

Siksika